Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1887-06-23
KANSAS PLUMAGE.


this year.
Newton will soon be station of the
Consolidated Tank Line Co.
A creamery at Hiatville, near Fl. Scott,
sends car load of butter and cheese to
New York every week.
The Kingman, Pratt and Western is now
completed to Wellsford, Kansas, fifty miles
west of Kingman.
A fire company, consisting of more than
forty members, was organized at Garden
City Monday evening.
Pratt City has fourteen new brick build
dings in course of construction, nine OF
which are three stories high.
Up to the present time 1877 scholars
have been graduated in the Kansas schools.
The boys number rs, the girls lead at 81.
The third session of the Kansas Chau
tauqua Assembly will be held at Garfield
Park in Topeka, from July 10 to 28th.
The Topeka board of education elected
ninety teachers for the instruction of the
youth of that city during the next school
year.
The bonds of the Minneapolis, Lincoln
e. Southwestern railway carried in Mime
apolis, Kansas, Monday, without dissent
ing vote.
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been purchased by wealthy St. Louis
party and the business of that concern will
be pushed
That locality about ten miles north of
Lyons experienced, quite hail storm Mon
day afternoon, damaging the corn and
wheat in one vicinity considerably.
Winfield, Caldwell and Wellington are
all discussing the legality of selling malt.
There seems to have been mistake in
labelling at some of the bottling works.
The little booming village of Geneseo, in
Rice county, was visited Monday by a cy-
clone playing havoc in general, upsetting
the houses and scattering them over the
prairies. How she spreads y
The Missouri river still continues to en-
croach on the city of Atchison. Large
pieces of land have been carried away, and
the people in some points along the bank
have moved out of their houses.
The health committee at Anthony advis-
es the citizens not to use the water of the
city water works for cooking or family
purposes, announcing that the water is i'm
pure and injurious to the health.
And now it is whispered around among
the rabble that immense reservoirs of nat
ural gas underly Emporia. All the neces-
sary arrangements have been made and
that city will soon join that great Kansas
organization, the boreing brotherhood.
Wellington is dissatisfied with the num-
Der of its mail carriers. The Monitor &C
cuses the inspector sent there by the
department Of discriminating against the
town, merely because he is Missourian
and claims that he is jealous of her pros
perity.
D. G. Metsker, mayor of Topeka, vetoed
the occupation tax at that place. Monday
evening, giving the following reasons for
so taking that action: 1T is unequal in
Its provisions, unjust, odious and obnox-
ious to the citizens" whereupon the Demo
Graf rejoices and extolls Mayor Metsker to
the stars,
The town of Effingham in the northern
part Of the state, possesses novel monu-
ment Of John Blown of Ossawatomie As
the old hero was making one of his excur-
sions into Iowa, he stopped at a house in
Efingham for dinner. The boy who took
charge Of his horse to care for it, seeing
cottonwood switch sticking in the saddle,
pulled it out and stuck it in the ground. 1t
grew, and now is large and flourishing
tree.
Leavenworth was visited by a devastat-
ing conflagration Tuesday morning The
fire originated in large furniture estab-
lishment, thence sped into shirt manu-
factory, belonging to n. r. Cranston,
Humphrey and Dawes, Druggists; Rosen-
berger and Sloss, wholesale cigar dealers;
Nislevshire and Co., confectionery and
fireworks establishment; Pale and Furga-
on, carpets and furniture dealers next had
their stocks destroyed by the consuming
lanes. The fire started at 8 o'clock and
it was II o'clock before the flames were
fully under control The loss is estimated
at S175, 600
LOVELY LYONS.
To the Editor OF the Eagle:
Somebody says that town has the great
est boom which has the most building
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